Buglist

[Jim Balter]

dahms@ifk20.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de wrote:
> 
> Hi Tim, you wrote:
> 
> :  . Bash doesn't understand drive letters, multi-dot relative paths
> :    (eg. "cd ..."), or UNC pathnames (eg. //host/resource).
> 
> What is a multi-dot path, please? I never saw ... only know . and ..
> Under Unix ... has no reserved meaning, and AFAIK neither under NT.

Under win32, paths consisting of only dots, with the exception of .
and .., are illegal.  This is along with a number of other
illegal characters and combinations, including such winners as
mkdir -p "abcde/xyz/con/ffo/bar" hanging as it tries to do I/O to the
"con" device; lots of fun when you untar a 500Meg tar tape from
some other system that was designed on less ad hoc principles.

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